On Tuesday, WTEM had Sports Reporters on from the Kornheiser/Wilbon charity golf tournament and roast. They had Dan Snyder on for a few minutes.

After peppering him with questions about why they stopped selling peanuts in the shell at games (and gone to shelled), they asked about the all-whites.

Snyder said that was totally the players' call and they kept with them at 1-0 and 2-0. But he also added that the retros WOULD be worn for one home game this season, according to the NFL rule that allows each team one deviation from what is filed with the league as the standard uniforms.

So far this season, the following teams have already used their one-time deviation:

Also, when the Redskins play at Miami on Sunday night later this season, the Dolphins are going to break out orange jerseys (with the white pants).

I assume the four teams that will play on Thanksgiving will be wearing a throwback (as has been the case the past two seasons).

I'd love to see the Redskins switch permanently to the retro uniform (without the commemorative patch, of course). Keep the spear on the sleeves as a secondary logo. If you even noticed, there was a spear on the pants on one hip and the 70th patch on the other hip. Those could go. No one sees what's there anyhow.

But the biggest change would be with the helmet -- a hybrid of the current Indian head logo and the classic retro colors.

Hey Mark, you're good with computer graphics and such, maybe you can work up a prototype of this:

Take the current logo and change the yellow in the circle and at the tip of the feathers to the retro gold. Replace last year's spear with this adjusted logo on last year's true burgundy helmet. No stripes, grey face mask.

I truly think that would be even better than what they have now.

Last edited by RedskinsFreak on Fri Sep 26, 2003 12:26 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Maybe the TV signal did something odd with the red (or your TV itself did)? I was at this past game and the burgundy on the field actually looked pretty good (a deeper red than their pre-retro uniforms).

Mrs. Newshog and I were carefully comparing the retro jerseys (last year) from older jerseys (earlier than that) and we decided the retro jerseys actually have a little too much purple to be considered true burgundy, while the older jerseys (as we all know) were too red. I think the term George Allen or Lombardi used was "Championship Claret."

Don't really like the mustard-toned gold of the retro jerseys, either, on close inspection. From a distance it looks fine, but up close it looks odd. All of which is kind of funny because I definitely like the overall look of the retro uniforms more than those of the previous years. So put me in the camp of "true burgundy and gold with the Indian head" as espoused here.

Speaking of gold--how sweet would it be for Snyder to shell out for real gold for the helmets?